This past week, we were scheduled to have a day off of Kaplan on Thursday! (a much needed break to say the least) During our day off, the God of this world decided to bless us with an extension of our break. Due to weather related issues our scheduled Kaplan professor for Physiology (our next subject) was unable to make it down to the island. As a result, Kaplan is being postponed until Monday of next week, which is the earliest classes could resume. The best case scenario for the longest break would be Wed. Why is this so great, well speaking only for my self and virtually the whole class, the pace of the Kaplan program is extremely fast and many of us could use a few days to catch up. So even though we have the weekend off, the majority of our time must be used to catch up and make sure we are on pace with everything we have already covered. Its almost 8pm here and its still 74 deg. sorry for all of you stuck in the cold still, just wanted to keep you update on weather in paradise. Other events that took place this week include me turning my digital camera on, only to find out that the viewing screen no longer works! I guess it just gives me a reason to get another camera. At the moment, its still functional and takes pictures and videos but instead of the convenient screen I have to use the old school lens viewer. If anyone has any recommendations for a new digital camera to purchase, by all means send them my way. I would love to get a SLR but as for brand, I am still unsure. Well, for those who read this blog, I wish you all a great and relaxing weekend!

After a long day of Anatomy, the roommates and I decided to treat ourselves to a nice dinner for no particular reason whatsoever. With that said, let me explain how the dinning experience played out. Located in one of the nicer shopping centers on Seven Mile Beach across the street from the beach and St. Matthew’ s Campus. As you walk in, customers are greeted buy a very nice decor and wine cellar. This brazilian steakhouse is set up buffet style but not like the typical buffet most Americans would be accustomed to. You seat yourself and are given a card with a red side and a green side. When you are hungry for meat you place the green side facing up and servers come around and serve you many different types of meat ranging from steak to lamb, chicken, veal, sausage, and pork. All of which are served table side. There is no limit to number of servings and each dinner is awarded a salad, fruit, sushi, and cheese buffet. I must say, I am no food critique but having worked in fine dinning for 4 years, I must say this was a very unique experience. Service was great, didn’t hurt that our server was easy on the eyes! haha but none-the-less it was another great night out with the roommates. If you are looking for a nice place on Island to take a date or  your family when they visit I would recommend other places first, with PRIME following quickly behind.

One way to de-stress and get my mind off of the books is to play some basketball. Today, on our day off, my roommates Micheal Edralin & Dino Ceckro have formed a 3 on 3 team for the 4th Semester White Coat fundraiser. Should be a very interesting since neither of us has played ball down here since 3rd semester. Our egos have gotten the best of us as we don’t want to leave the Island on loosing note. Mike and I went to shoot around last night just to remind our bodies that at one point in our lives we knew how to play the game. Not sure how many teams there will be, but we hope to be competitive. Dino hurt his ankle last night playing soccer with some of the guys from here and he’s the biggest man we got.

Anyway, It is currently 80 degrees and sunny and the roosters are up and doing what they do best, waking me up. I will post the results of our tournament later today hopefully along with some pics.

Here are so pictures of my teamates: Michael and Dino